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UN launches Global Media AIDS Initiative

UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - "When you are working to combat a disastrous and growing emergency, you should use every tool at your disposal," United...

Africa moving forward: A conversation at the UN

UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - The Final Call was blessed to have a few minutes with a delegate from Africa. We enjoyed Expresso in the...

Who will try Saddam Hussein?

Was Saddam actually captured on December 13? (Al Bawaba, 12/18/2003)Saddam's Capture Means Trouble for U.S. Officials (FFF, 12/15/2003) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Amnesty International (AI), the...

IAEA asks Israel to give up nuclear arsenal

/GIN Israelis urge nuclear disarmament (Al Jazeera, 01/01/2004) Nearly half of Americans say Israel is threat to world peace (AP, 12/17/2003) VIENNA (IPS/GIN) (FinalCall.com) -...

Israel said to train U.S. assassins in Iraq

/GIN LONDON (IPS/GIN)–The U.S. army in Iraq is enlisting Israeli experts to train its forces on assassinating resistance leaders, a move which a...

UN tells Israel once again: ‘Get rid of fence’

UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - One day after Israel vowed to speed up construction of its controversial West Bank security fence, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi...

UN: Africa is ground zero of global AIDS crisis

HIV/AIDS continues to challenge Black America (FCN 12/4/2003) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - The HIV/AIDS pandemic took the highest number of lives and produced the highest...

A booming China challenges

/GIN Premier Wen urges stronger Sino-US ties (12/08/2003, China People's Daily)China and the World's Power Pyramid Pt. II (April, 2000 BlackElectorate.com) BEIJING (IPS/GIN)–Two years after its...

World reaction to Bush’s UK visit

UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - "Why do they hate you, Mr. President?" asked the political editor of Britain's ITV news, at a press conference in...

UN General Assembly tells U.S. to end the Cuban embargo

UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - For the 12th straight year, the United Nations General Assembly voted on November 4 against Washington's four-decade-old economic embargo against...